Thirty cases of alopecia Areata from O.P.D. of Govt. Hospital, Madras were administered Indian Version of schedule of Recent Experience, Taylor's Manifest Anxiety Scale, Beck's Depressive Inventory, Hostility Direction and Hostility Questionnaire of Fould's and Cattell's 16 PF Questionnaire (Form E) to find out antecedent stress, anxiety, depression, hostility and personality factors. Thirty ca...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between hostility, anger expression, and blood pressure (BP) dipping. METHODS A 24-hour ambulatory BP was obtained from 34 African Americans and 52 white Americans who were enrolled in a study of sleep, stress, and BP. Self-report measures were used to assess anger expression and hostility. RESULTS After controlling for body m...

The purpose of present paper is to discuss the concept horizontal hostility, a special type workplace violence among working women. Horizontal hostility has been identified as aggressive behavior inflicted by women towards other due gender issues or minority group members issues. Different psychological and organizational level drivers have analyzed through literature. significant results in ph...

Objective Though behavioral measures of hostility and aggression have been significantly linked to men and heart disease, they have not consistently predicted the relationship between hostility and aggression in women and heart disease. However, gender differences in display of aggression are poorly understood. Current aggression models may be biased towards men. In order to better understand t...

This multimethod, prospective study examined the nature of pathways between interparental hostility and withdrawal, parental emotional unavailability, and subsequent changes in children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors, and school adjustment difficulties over a 3-year period in a sample of 210 mothers, fathers, and 6-year-old children. The results of autoregressive structural equatio...

ACADEMIC ABSTRACT A contingency based model shows that firm performance for technology services organizations (TSOs) is positively related with entrepreneurial autonomy and technology intensity; and negatively related with environmental hostility. Further, firm size is found to have a moderating effect on the relationship of TSO performance with entrepreneurial autonomy, technology intensity an...